Second day in Italy

We hit the ground running in true Grace form starting at 6AM. Grace’s reasonings: we were wide awake, lost a day from sleeping and the weather was spectacular! We spent a few hours exploring the waterfront taking in the scenery and shooting beautiful pictures. With no one around and in awe of the beauty around us, our walk to Villa Melzi was heaven on earth. On the waterfront was a small café that had fresh pastries and coffee where the lady was so sweet. She allowed us to eat on credit as we were not able to exchange to the Euro yet.

The ferry system is quite developed and we were able to take the ferry across the lake to visit the beautiful Villa Colatta and gardens, which was once a wedding gift for the Princess Colatta. Some of the garden highlights were the green forest, a natural stream, blue hydrangeas, a cherub fountain with water lilies, and a tunnel of orange blossoms & jasmine.

We rode the ferry back to Bellagio after spending couple hours at Villa Carlotta and seeing the towns Termezzo & Carlotta. We ate at La Grotta, a pizzeria that Flavio recommended for the best pizza. It was really good pizza. After lunch we headed for the church to be picked up by our guide for horsebacking. He was 10 min. late and skeptical enough we were a little scared as he drove about 30 min. away from the lake. It was nice to see how the locals live and see the raw side of Bellagio. Flavio dropped us off at his house with a young boy and some horses that a plethora of flies around their heads. The young boy sagging his pants and cigarette in his mouth looked real professional. With no one else around and the horses being lazy, Grace wondered how safe was this going to be. We set out for horseback riding into the hills and countryside that was so memorable to the both of us. We enjoyed our time, BUTT we were sore.

The earlier walk in town, had markets that had beautiful heirloom tomatoes that we attempted to try on our own in our apartment with fresh homemade linguini from the market and tomato sauce, salad, and orange fanta (yummy). We never did that again. With jetlag, Grace fell asleep around 8pm.